I don't know about all of you but I'm going to run out and invest in one of those edible paper companies right now! (Seriously, if "The Graduate" was being made those two words would be "edible paper." I hear there's a great future in it.)

I've been reading these for a long time, and that TV dinner cake is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. The colors! The image of greasy fake chicken on frosting! I'm going to have to stop reading until this pregnancy is over...

Ah, but my WV is "readue" - I have to readue every day, regardless of the risks!

I was just wishing Taryn good luck in her new job as a hearse driver when I got to the casket cake. I actually jerked back in my chair. I grew up in the funeral business (explains a lot) and I was disgusted by that cake.

Then I got to the sonogram and I was whatever you call one step beyond disgusted. @barn, saw what I saw, so I know it's not just me!

Felicia and Perry are getting hitched. To what? Each other? a trucking business? that nuclear green icing is really unappealing.

Taryn! good luck for WHAT? in the afterlife? as a funeral director? with her snazzy new budget used-hearse wheels?

Is Hampton turning 6? is he the son of a funeral director? WHY IS THERE AN OPEN CASKET ON HIS CAKE???

These cakes disturb me more than the gross ones. how creepy!

Now why do routine medical exams require cake? do people have ultrasound parties now? wait until you see 3D ultrasound cakes (and you thought edible babies were creepy)

The chicken cake makes me wonder...did the baker accidentally put their lunch package on the printer and decided not to waste the printout? who wants a cake with a package of chicken on it? seriously? who are these bakers/customers???

One of the MANY reasons I HATE the guy from Cake Boss: He's obsessed with edible paper! He used it on a cake for OPRAH! Good grief. Also his cakes are hideous compared to the ones posted here every Sunday.

#1 (following examples b & a): Is Karla 5? Is the happy couple going to live in the RV? Now refusing to follow that line of inquiry...

#2 Felicia and Perry could be truckers, I suppose -- there are quite a few couples doing that.

#3 Please tell me Taryn just entered the funeral business. Though I scarcely think 'good luck' is needed -- that's one line of work where a shortage of business is not a problem. 'Death becomes it', indeed.

#4 Hampton the Hampster, perchance? No, I am NOT implying anything sinister happened to that most unlikely of media stars, just playing off the name. We good?

#5 Mmm. Red frosting. Now that's good eats.

#6a is a classic literal. So, it would seem, is 6b. So...Got any more Passover cakes, Jen?

maybe Karla and the future Mr. Karla are going to be living in a mobile home?

But the coffin cake? Happy Birthday? and 6 candles" trying to put those 3 together...wow, it either has to be a joke for a milestone birthday (30, 40...). If not, the other possibilities make me worry for our society.

Even big-time cake decorating companies like Wilton are getting in on the "edible paper" trend. Check out their newest product--the Punch, Cut, Decorate! http://www.wilton.com/pcd/All I can say is TACKY!!! I thought Wilton was supposed to help people decorate cakes, not scrapbook on a cake. Yuck!

The only thing worse that random clip art on a cake is an actual photo of a person, especially a child. The first time I ever saw a photo cake was at a child's birthday party and they were getting close to cutting into her face. I was horrified.

And let me join in wishing Taryn the best of luck in the afterlife! If ancient Egyptians had hearses and edible paper, cakes like that would be found in tombs of pharaohs!

Okay, the one with the hearse on it--what exactly are they wishing Taryn good luck in? Her death? (In which case, that is so not cool--she can't even enjoy the death cake.) Maybe she's starting a new career as a hearse driver or funeral director? Hmm...

me, personally, I dont think the edible sugar sheets are so hideous, all depends in how you use them. (made a "stack of hundred dollar bills" cake using an enlarged picture of a bill on a sugar sheet) It's how you overuse or abuse the medium that makes it hideous. Ive seen some horribly tacky things done with gum paste and fondant, and I personally hate the overly sweet playdough taste of fondant, doesn't mean that I think no one should use it.

You should hire this guy to do the commercial:http://youtu.be/YtespeLin2cI seriously don't understand why more people aren't making use of edible paper in their everyday lives... Just think: Students printing their school projects on it could leave it around for their pets and then truly say "the dog ate my homework". Easy peasy!

As a cake decorator for a grocery store that uses an edible image machine, it's not as easy as print most of the time. The edible ink gets clogged and it can literally take an hour to finally print a good edible image of the customers cat. LOL!!

I saw an awesome South Park cake at a show once and was astounded by the intricate and exact detail of the characters until I looked closer and could detect the printer lines. I was then utterly disappointed. It felt like cheating, especially in a competition. I don't begrudge businesses edible images or Cricut stuff because it's fast and sells, but in a competition I find both highly off-putting.

I must admit I am guilty of buying a cake that had an edible Star Wars design on it lol. It was pretty good..if you pretend the paper is just thick frosting. That sonogram cake would make me run screaming from the room.. cause who would want to eat a picture of their baby lol.

I'm speechless. Just...speechless. Were *any* of these cakes requested with those printed images? (and you're not the only one hearing "wacky, waving, inflatable arm, flailing tube man!" when you read this, thesacredandtheprofane!)

You get what you pay for. All of those cakes were probably under 20 dollars. Furthermore, it's not the decorators fault that customers order picture cakes. For instance? The one with the Semi? I have no doubt in my mind the person who took that picture picked the design out of a book, and they got what they ordered! After saying that.. a lot of these are just ugly! That is the decorators fault, lol.

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